All Life Is Problem Solving

Cable Media anchors and hosts, with a few exceptions, have been making total fools of themselves over the $7.7 Billion in “earmarks” included in the $410 Billion Omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress. They have manufactured a protean conflict between the “good government” types, many of whom are suddenly many of the same Republicans […]

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Warren Buffet said today that the leaders of this nation need to treat the President as the commander-in-chief of an economic war because that’s what we’re in right now, and he characterized the economy as falling off a cliff. Well, I’m not sure I’d go that far, since we’ve so recently gotten into far too […]

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Well, the chorus has now started singing “too small, too small” about the stimulus. What was obvious to Paul Krugman, Joe Stieglitz, Dean Baker, Jamie Galbraith, Robert Reich. Robert Kuttner, and a host of other economists is now becoming so clear that the MSM, which not very long ago, wouldn’t even cover the opinion that […]

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On March 3, Neil Olonoff posted a blog entitled “KM Solutions for the Coming Federal Hiring Wave.” He also posted the blog to the actkm group listserv, saying: “I’d appreciate your opinions as to whether you consider the solutions below to be KM services. I also would love to hear your thoughts on how KM […]

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Today, Dave Snowden blogged about a personal experience with National Health Insurance in the UK, which I urge you to read. His conclusion, with which I agree is: ”Critically I have no bill, no money to pay. I didn’t sit in the hospital worrying about a fast discharge or maybe compromising on tests for financial […]

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Thinking about the sorry state of the world economy today and the continuing and impending destruction of already created wealth, I recalled the words of Oliver Cromwell to The Rump Parliament in 1653, echoed by Leo Amery to Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate of 1940. “You have sat too long here for any good […]

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In Part Two of this series, I pointed out that KM personnel need a measure of autonomy from line authority and an ability to define for themselves where knowledge processing in locales and other groups needs to be enhanced. This is critical for avoiding “the strategy exception error,” of exempting the process of strategy making […]

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At lunch yesterday, just hours before the President’s speech to the Congress proposing the outlines for a reconstruction of the American economy enabled by Government action, a leading Republican prepared the way by providing some comic relief: “We’re advocating that Congress freeze all federal spending immediately,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the […]

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Today, I have a quickie comment on US politics. Ryan Lizza had a striking profile on Rahm Emanuel in the New Yorker, which among other things recorded Rahm’s reactions to some critics of the Administration’s efforts on the stimulus package. Lizza puts things this way: ““They have never worked the legislative process,” Emanuel said of […]

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Before moving on to discussing in more detail how a National KM Center would coordinate information availability about KM and knowledge processing, I’d like to take a little time to write about a long-standing issue in KM. The issue of definition. In Part One of this series, I defined KM as activity intended to enhance […]

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